When we present ourself to the outside world ( introdcing ourself, online profiles ) we make a picture of the person we want to be, not the one we really are. We lie not only to other people but ( most important ) to ourselves too. There is a very good bunch on information on the “why” question in a presentation you can find on youtube : “Honest liars — the psychology of self-deception: Cortney Warren at TEDxUNLV“.

In that presentation there is a reasoning for all these lies: “Freud – pshychological strategies that protect our egos from information that wil hurt us”. I tend to agree more with the theory that it is a life-protection machnism in our brains: if we admit that we failed many goals we wanted to achieve about ourselves we might get into a depresive spiral that leads to suicide. Therefore, with a little bit of lying, we keep being optimistic about our lives. [Read more…]

I qualify posture as a habit and, therefore, trainable. By training yourself to keep a good posture your body gets vertically aligned and the position is sustained by muscles, bones and joints the way they were intent by mother nature and ensures proper breathing, minimal stress on the joints, balanced load on your muscles.

By not keeping a good posture (keeping a bad posture, slouching) you compress the front of the body and make breathing more inefficient (you take shorter breaths), the joints are overstressed and slowly but surely damaged and the core muscles are unevenly used and they will either atrophy or overdevelop.